I think the Dictations of the ascended masters, are not beyond the realm of human

mistakes. They do have interference from the messenger's psyche ( For example: In the
MAGIC PRESENCE we read <<The Sun is not as hot as scientists think. It is as cool and a
thousand times more refreshing than the gentle zephyrs of the most delightful summer
evening>> )

This is absurd.. The scientist has proved that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas.

And that's why these teachings and the Activity aren't absolute.

But they are true. They have a lot of Light. the I AM Presence is real, the Ascended
Masters are real, the Sacred Fire is real. Decrees work. The Violet Flame Worksthe
Essence is true. But not all detailI too believe the I AM Activity is authentic, I have
experienced so much Light in it, there is Light emanating from those books. The essence
is truth, not all details are right.

In Volume 12 Bob speaks about Nada Rayborn as his mother!

But actually it was Rex that was her son, according to the story Bob would be her son-in-
law and so on or a Master quoting another wrongly for example, Saint Germain said
something than another day a Master quotes what He said saying: "The Great Divine
Director told you the other day ..."

Now, another one: the Washington's Vision

did you know that the Washington's Vision is a fiction? It was written by a journalist after
the Civil War

I read Unveiled Mysteries 10 years ago, I liked much of the book but I didn't believe in its
authenticity fully. I remember not believing in the story of David Lloyd. It was only years
later that I started to believe it, but against my deepest intuitions. Another thing is that
since I came into the Activity I remember feeling that Godfr had never gone to India. I
remember hearing interviews with early students who met Godfr when he came back to
Chicago, and before he was famous, and they were speaking about him coming back to
Chicago from the WEST - meaning California probably. My intuitions told me he had not
gone to Egypt, Arabia and India as recorded in Magic Presence. Later findings confirmed
it. In a pamphlet published in 1936, the author of "Psychic Dictatorship in America"
shows how the dates don't work. So Godfr met Saint Germain in Mount Shasta in the
second semester of 1930. After those experiences, start the ones of Magic Presence - in
1931. Around July of 1931 Saint Germain meets with them and announce that in one year
from now Daniel Rayborn would attain the ascension. And so comes times of
preparation, there is a Christmas event together in which they traveled to the University
Rayborn's children were attending and etc, and then one year after the announcement
Daniel Rayborn attains the ascension, and the rest of the group goes to the Far East
where the closing chapters take place. So it means: Rayborn ascended around July 1932,
and AFTER that comes the trip to the Far East. But... the Dictations in Chicago, when Mr.
Ballard was already back home, started in July 1932. And then more and more it started
to become clear to me how the majority of what is in the Magic Presence can't be
anything but fiction. Lots of those stories are very imaginative and ill-written, they get
confused and etc. And those stories about secret services capturing secret communist
agents and all that. That sounded like sheer fiction to me too. I never understood, for
example, how in the Ascended Master Retreat in Darjeeling, India, Rex was capable of
identifying a intruder within the retreat - while the all-Powerful and all-Knowing Ascended
Masters there present couldn't. And when Rex said: "an intruder!", the Master in charge
of the Retreat looked fiercely at him and demanded proof! And then Rex's Twin Ray Pearl
jumps over the man, and some papers proving that he was a spy fall down. That's so
clearly sheer fiction! It makes no sense, it has the fantasy and imagination of a police
fiction, no spiritual substance in it, and for me it's hard to believe that it could be true.
Now, I find Unveiled Mysteries a book that feels more authentic than Magic Presence.
The claims that Mr. Ballard plagiarized earlier books apply mainly to Magic Presence. In
Magic Presence, that story about Alexander Gaylord and his meeting with his twin ray,
Lady Master Leto - whom was once in a while called Princess Louise, is 100% copied
from "Brother of the Third Degree", down to the details. Even, for example, when Gaylord
first sees Leto, she has a veil on, and he hears that she is the "veiled sister". That's
EXACTLY the way the main character of Brother of the Third Degree first meets his twin
ray, "Iole" (instead of Leto), also known as Princess Louise. So when I first read Brother
of the Third Degree, I thought Alexander Gaylord was a reincarnation of the main
character of Alphonso Colonus (the main character of that book), and that Leto had
survived centuries and was that same Iole of the other book. But it's just too equal. Even
the fact they were working on the secret political fields, the way they met, the way
Alphonso Colonus was surprised when he heard people calling Iole by the name of
Princess Louise.

That's just the same, it cannot be that in two different embodiments Alexander
Gaylord/Alphonso Colonus experienced the same things and had the same feelings. I
remember enjoying and loving Magic Presence very much, but now that I remember it, I
can't see it as something else than fiction. I think there might some truth in the
experiences of Unveiled Mysteries. It is a fact that Guy Ballard was in Mount Shasta for
months. It is a fact he used to walk around there. It is a fact that he wrote letters to his
wife from Mount Shasta describing having met a mysterious young man, like described
in the book. So I think that he might have indeed met Saint Germain in Mount Shasta. But
I find it hard to believe that he met the Rayborn family, made fantastic discoveries of gold
mines, met those 4 kids, the story of Alexander Gaylord and the secret service and the
capture of the communist emissaries, the trip to India... I can't see that these things are
real. The stories all get confused. It was not a well-written book. For example, when the
superintendent of the mine of Mr. Rayborn died, he hired Bob. Then suddenly he started
sharing the deepest secrets about Saint Germain with him, and suddenly he is one of the
family, gets to meet Saint Germain and discover to be Nada's twin ray. Now seemingly he
worked no longer as a superintendent, so Mr. Rayborn hires someone else (I think his
name was Dave something). Then after the story of the capture of the communist
emissaries (one of the two, because this story happens twice), Saint Germain releases a
woman that was doing evil, heals her daughter Zara, and this family comes to live in
America. Suddenly, Zara founds out to be Dave's twin ray, and all this new family meets
with Saint Germain in a precipitated dinner. It's all confusing, sounds like everybody Mr.
Rayborn hires as superintendent finds his twin ray and meets Saint Germain and leaves
the job! Plus the story of Mr. Rayborn's loss of his wife is like the same story told in
Unveiled Mystery in the chapter about the Secret Valley. Too weird and confusing. Then
we have another David - after David Lloyd - ascending, who had the same characteristics
of the previous Ascended David - elderly gentleman with white hair and beard. And all
the Ascensions in these books were accomplished by material means - precipitated Cups
with sparkling liquid, accelerating chairs. Not one Ascension accomplished through
spiritual means. That sounds like a spiritual materialism to me. Too confusing stories...
Too imaginative and fantasious, too many of them can be found exactly like that in
previous Theosophical romances like Dweller on Two Planets, Brother of the Third
Degree, Myriam and the Mystic Brotherhood, Wanderer in the Spirit's Land, The Prince of
Atlantis, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East and others. So I find it difficult
to defend that those two first books are perfectly true from cover to cover, like the
Ballards used to say. Too imaginative. Not that I doubt that the things described there
exist. I know those things exist. There are Masters and They have limitless Power, and
throughout history people have seen Them in action. Since Theosophy came the West
was shown all the ancient histories about the Indian and Tibetan Masters, the Himalayan
Masters to whom nothing was impossible.